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Native Apple

There are two easy ways to get started with Vindral on native Apple (iOS, iPadOS, AppleTV) applications:

Integrate Vindral via the Vindral Apple SDK​

With support for 4K, picture-in-picture, and fast channel switching, the Vindral Apple SDK is a great way to consume high-quality, low-latency streams within a native Apple device.

Read the Vindral Apple SDK API Reference for more information on how to implement native playback.

Integrate Vindral via Webview​

The easiest way to view Vindral streams on native iOS and iPadOS applications is to embed the hosted player with a WebView. No custom interface is needed, and the code below is all that is required.

You can find a complete example project on GitHub.

// Bare minimum ViewController displaying a Vindral Stream

import UIKit
import WebKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {
  var webView: WKWebView!

  override func loadView() {
    // Create a config for our view that allows audio/video
    let config = WKWebViewConfiguration()
    config.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true
    if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
      config.mediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback = []
    } else {
      config.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = false
    }

    // Initialize WKWebView with config
    self.webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: config)
    self.view = webView
  }

  override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    let url = URL(string: "https://player.vindral.com/?channelId=vindral_demo1_ci_099ee1fa-80f3-455e-aa23-3d184e93e04f")!
    let request = URLRequest(url: url)
    self.webView.load(request)
  }
}

Creating your custom web player using the Web SDK and displaying it via WebView is also possible.